For the sixth consecutive year, Global Competition Review has named Bates White in its "Economics 21" (formally “Economics 20”), a listing of the world’s leading competition economics firms. Selection into this group of firms is highly competitive and determined by an independent survey that analyzes the nominated firms’ size, presence of leading economists, recent client successes, historical pedigree, and market visibility.

On January 24, 2014, in the matter Federal Trade Commission v. St. Luke’s Health System, Ltd., Judge B. Lynn Winmill, of the US District Court in the District of Idaho, ordered divestiture of the affiliation between St. Luke’s Health System (St. Luke’s) and Saltzer Medical Group (Saltzer).

In October 2012, McKesson Corporation (McKesson), a healthcare services and information technology company, announced an agreement to purchase PSS World Medical Inc., a distributor of medical products and services, in a transaction valued at $2.1 billion.

Dr. B. Douglas Bernheim offered testimony in US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of plaintiffs in In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, a case alleging price-fixing agreements between Chinese suppliers.

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Bates White has significant experience providing economic analysis and expert testimony in complex antitrust and competition matters. We have played a leading role in many high-profile antitrust matters and presented economic evidence before, and on behalf of, competition enforcement agencies around the world. Our exclusive relationship with E.CA Economics offers clients an integrated approach to issues requiring experience and expertise before European enforcement agencies and courts. Both our firms are named in Global Competition Review’s “Economics 20” as leaders in competition economics.

We specialize in analysis of antitrust liability, causation, and damages arising from alleged anticompetitive conduct including monopolization, exclusive dealing, tying and bundling, and price-fixing. Our antitrust and competition experts are highly experienced at analyzing likely competitive effects from proposed mergers and acquisitions in numerous industries including analyses of unilateral effects, coordinated effects, and merger efficiencies. We also have substantial expertise applying economic analysis to questions of class certification including analysis of common impact and feasible damage methodologies.

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